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St Barnabas Parish Church Woodfield Road Hadleigh www.stbarnabas-hadleigh.org.uk
St Barnabas Parish Church
Church Road Hadleigh SS7 2EJ Parish Office - 01702
558591
www.stbarnabas-hadleigh.org.uk
Priest-in-Charge: Revd Ruth Cartwright
ruth@cartmann.eclipse.co.uk
01702 426998
Focal Minister: Guy Negus
guynegus1@gmail.com
01702 558477
Churchwarden:
Richard Ambrose 01702 551593
Associate Priest: Revd Christine Robinson
01702 557000
Assistant Curate: Revd Jackie Turner
(for updates go to www.stbarnabas-hadleigh.org.uk - ‘What’s On’ page)
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10.30am Holy Communion
4.00pm - 6.00pm Messy Church
Ruth’s Page
Winter can go on a bit – looking forward to
(or panicking about) Christmas keeps us
going through November and December,
but January and February can be difficult
as it’s cold and dark and summer holidays
seem a long way away. In the church we
have Easter to look forward to, but that’s
late this year, not until well into April. But
something that can liven up this time is the
promise of a spring or summer wedding.
Now of course anyone who’s getting
married this spring or summer has
probably been planning for some time, and
is at the stage of sorting out final details. I do have a couple of bookings
for 2020, but church weddings can be arranged fairly quickly.
Church of England weddings are not forbidden to people who have
been divorced or who already have children. The language is modern
and we can be very flexible with poems, readings, and music, and of
course a wedding in church is a lovely tradition. And we can offer
blessings to those who have been married by a registrar somewhere
else, or a renewal of vows to those who are celebrating having been
together for a while, whether they were married in church or elsewhere.
So with the romance of Valentine’s Day in mind, why not consider
getting married or celebrating a marriage in church?
Whether weddings are on your mind or not, you are always very
welcome at St Barnabas – see elsewhere in the magazine for details
of Mothering Sunday and Easter activities and services for all the family.
I hope to see you soon,
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Cover Picture:
Mothering Sunday Flowers
at
St Barnabas
The picture on the front cover is a welcome reminder that the drabness of
winter will soon give way to the colour and vibrancy of spring.
Easter is later this year, so Mothering Sunday, traditionally the fourth Sunday
of Lent, three weeks before Easter, will be celebrated at a special service in
St Barnabas at 10.30 on Sunday 31st March.
Posies of flowers, like those pictured in the baskets, will be handed to children
to give to their mums. There are always plenty to go round, so all ladies, not
just mothers, receive flowers, often the men too!
I believe that the church should strive to bring colour and joy into people’s lives,
just like the mothering Sunday flowers. There is a solemn side to Easter of
course, but this is far outshone by the wonderful news of the resurrection.
Lovely flowers can help to lift the gloom of winter and bring light to dark places
in our lives.
We look forward to welcoming you on Mothering Sunday
MOTHERING SUNDAY AT ST BARNABAS
10.30am Sunday 31st March
a Special Service to say
THANK YOU MUM!
Posies of Flowers
Simnel Cake + Tea & Coffee
Hot Cross Buns
In the 14th century, a monk at St Albans Abbey
made some buns using currants or raisins and
added a spice. The spice was expensive, so
most local people could not afford to use it.
Brother Thomas Rocliffe decided to bake
some of these Alban buns as they were called,
and distributed them to the poor, hot from the
oven, on Good Friday 1361. The significance
of the particular day was highlighted by a cross
cut into each bun with a knife.
Alban buns are now produced by Redbournbury Mill, once owned by St Alban’s
Abbey. The recipe remains a secret, known only to the baker and to one monk.
Buns are made and shaped by hand so the shape is irregular. The cross is
still cut with a knife.
126g self-raising flour - 60g butter - 100g currants - 30g caster sugar
1 large egg - cardamom spice drops
Pre-heat oven to 200c
Rub the butter into the flour until the mix is crumbly, like bread crumbs
Add the currants and the sugar
Break the egg into a separate bowl, add 4 or 5 drops of cardamom spice,
whisk together and pour onto the dry ingredients
Gently mix in the egg before using hands to bring the mixture together
Divide the dough into 8 balls, place on a baking tray and make a cross on
each bun by pressing in a knife. Bake for 15 - 20 minutes until golden
brown
5
Shopper
I am spending my way out
Of a recession. The road chokes
On delivery vans.
I used to be Just Looking Round,
I used to be How Much, and
Have You Got it in Beige.
Now I devour whole stores —
High speed spin; giant size; chunky gold;
de luxe springing. Things.
I drag them round me into a stockade.
It is dark inside; but my credit cards
are incandescent.
—-------------
A Green Song
One green bottle,
Drop it in the bank.
Ten green bottles,
What a lot we drank.
Heaps of bottles
And yesterday's a blank.
But we'll save the planet,
Tinkle, tinkle, clank!
We've got bottles -
Nice, percussive trash.
Bags of bottles
Cleaned us out of cash.
Empty bottles,
We love to hear them smash
And we'll save the planet,
Tinkle, tinkle, crash!
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Garden Tips in Spring
2018 was a long, hot, dry
summer; many plants failed while
others did well. Lampranthus,
Begonias, Gaillardias, all
excelled, while runner beans
produced poor crops. If the
experts are correct and 2019 is
similarly hot and dry, we suggest
a two-way approach to runner
beans:
Plant climbing French beans
early and then plant runner beans in July. Climbing French beans
tolerate heat better than runner beans. We planted a second crop of
runner beans on 19th July 2018 and they did much better that those
planted in March; we picked our final crop on 18th November.
A few tips for the coming months:
Increase watering and feeding of pot plants. Turn compost bins to
increase the air in the compost. Protect young seedlings from slugs.
When tomato plants begin to produce side shoots, don’t simply pinch
out and discard as side shoots make excellent cuttings. This was a tip
by Bob Flowerdew on Gardeners’ Question Time. We were fortunate
to see the programme live at St Clement’s Church Hall some years ago.
Bob Flowerdew went on to say that those taking an early holiday might
nip out the tops of their tomato plants to delay fruiting for two weeks,
and these tops also make excellent cuttings. All these cuttings are true
to the variety of the original seed sown
Happy Gardening! G & R
7
Christmas Market
17th November
2018
Togetherness
Scouts, Cubs
& Beavers
helped too
Georgie & Ron
In Paradise
8
Pet Blessing
Service
28 October 2018
Lovely Staffie
‘Lola’
Katie on Keyboard
Simon on Violin
9
HMS Broke
Picture
With a Story
HMS Broke
On Remembrance Sunday 2018 at St Barnabas, I mentioned my grandfather.
Herbert Marshall, who was a Royal Navy stoker in the First World War. To
granddad, Engine Room Artificers (E R A’s), responsible for the operation and
maintenance of the machinery and ship systems, were akin to gods; as senior
non commissioned officers they were certainly more than a cut above a humble
stoker. He frequently urged me to become an E R A. He lived to see it happen:
I joined the Royal Navy as an E R A Apprentice and emerged after four years’
training in shore bases to begin my career as an Engine Room Artificer
My dad volunteered with the Essex Regiment and died in World War 2. As a
boy I spent most school holidays with my maternal grandparents; mum was
busy working in order to keep home and children, hence I came to know
granddad very well. Granddad didn’t talk about World War I; however, he did
tell me that one ship he served in was what was then a very modern destroyer
called HMS Broke. He even named his son ‘Broke’, though fortunately for him
he was always known as Bert.
HMS Broke
Tyneside Dry Dock 1916
Many years later, long after Granddad’s death,
I started to wonder why HMS Broke was so
important to him. I discovered that while serving
in this ship he had been wounded, on 31st May
1916. Delving further, I realised that this had
been at the start of the Battle of Jutland. I had
not known previously that granddad had been
in the battle, nor, as his service record confirms,
that he was wounded, albeit not seriously; 42
sailors were killed and a further 6 listed as
missing.
HMS Broke was built for the Chilean Navy but commandeered by the R N when
WW1 began. At 23.15 on 31st May 1916, Broke, with other ships of the 4th
destroyer flotilla, encountered four German light cruisers, the van (leading
ships) of the German high seas fleet.10HMS Broke Broke and the other destroyers
Tyneside Dry Dock 1916 fired torpedoes, but they were
heavily outgunned. When
Broke's helmsman was killed at
the wheel, the ship, temporarily
out of control and steaming at 28
knots, rammed another ship in the
flotilla, HMS Sparrowhawk. At first
locked together, the two
destroyers managed to separate,
Broke having lost her bow and
suffered many casualties.
Amazingly, Broke was able to stay afloat and manoeuvre, with some difficulty
because of the sea conditions. She limped into the River Tyne two and a half
days later. I wonder if granddad's admiration for E R As had something to do
with this feat. HMS Broke was repaired and later, after he had left the ship,
was involved in the 2nd Battle of Dover Strait on 21st April 1917, helping to
see off a number of German Motor Torpedo Boats. Again the ship was badly
damaged, but survived. Broke was repaired once more and after the war sold
to the Chilean Navy, as originally intended; tough ships and tough men.
Footnotes:
11COMING EVENTS
Saturday 2nd March 12.30pm
followed by
Sequence Dancing Demonstration
with
Audience Participation
Tickets £5 from Ann Dawes
or call Parish Office - 01702 558591
Saturday 27th April
COFFEE MORNING
HADLEIGH JUNIOR SCHOOL CHOIR
SINGING IN CHURCH - 10.00am -10.30am
Coffee & Refreshments in the Hall 10.30am - 12.00
Stalls - Raffle
£1.50 at the door
12Craft Story Song Food
Everyone is Invited to a Meal, but you don't have to stay
no charge but contributions to help with costs are welcome
MESSY CHURCH DATES
Mondays 11th February - 11th March - 8th April
all Messy Church times 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Contact Marion 01702 556318
MAKE AN EASTER GARDEN
JOIN IN AN EASTER EGG HUNT
CRAFT TABLE
REFRESHMENTS TOO!
13Quips and Quotes
Comedian Ken Dodd, who sadly died in March 2018, told this joke, with food
for thought, in a church service broadcast on Radio 4:
"How do you make God laugh?" - "Tell him about your future!"
In the same vein, the great Indian political game changer and thinker
Mahatma Gandhi once said:
“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of
the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”
My favourite quote on past, present and future came from the wise and
amusing raconteur and author the late Rabbi Lionel Blue, on Radio 4
'Thought For The Day':
“The past is too dead to do much about, and the future is only a glint
in God’s eyes, but the present is precious and holy, because you can
change it to do good to yourself and to others.”
The magazine is printed by Colchester Press. For the winter 2018 edition, I requested
a very tight deadline - ordered on a Friday morning for delivery the following Wednesday AND
they did it! 2000 copies printed, bound and delivered at 9.00am - Great quality and service. (Ed)
Halls for Hire
Children’s Parties
Clubs & Dancing
Functions & Meetings
St Barnabas’ Church has 3 halls
WOODFIELD HALL - up to 100 people
JUBILEE HALL - up to 60 people
PEARSON LOUNGE - up to 24 people
Please contact the Parish Office for details
01702 558591 (messages left will be answered)
14The Church of St Barnabas is usually
Open Every Day 10.00am to 4.00pm
Your Parish Church is here for Everyone
It offers a place of quiet
for prayer or reflection
or simply to be still
ST. BARNABAS PRAYER TREE
If you would like a prayer for another person, or for
yourself, there is a ‘Prayer Tree’ in the Church porch
where you can write your request. Prayers are said
during Church Services and at our Prayer Group
meetings. We are here to help.
If you would like to explore the Christian faith or you feel you would
like your faith to be confirmed, please contact Ruth, Guy or
Christine. Details on the back page. We’d love to hear from you.
Holy Communion At Home
If you are not able to come to Church and would like
to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion in your
home, please contact Guy Negus 01702 558477
A member of the ministry team at St Barnabas will
then contact you to arrange a date and time.
Please email articles, preferably no more than 250 words, and pictures, as
high quality as possible, to the editor:
revket@aol.com 01702 428971
If you do not have access to a computer, deliver or
post paper copy and pictures to: Mike Ketley, 40
Commonhall Lane, Hadleigh SS7 2RN.
COPY DEADLINE 24th APRIL 2019
(before to be sure!) 15Revd Ruth Cartwright
01702 426998
Revd Christine Robinson
01702 557000
Guy Negus 01702 558477
Open Tuesdays & Fridays
10.00am-11.00am Tel. 01702 558591
Messages left are answered
Please call the Parish Office
For details, please see page 13
Andrea Jordan 01702 552327
Monday to Friday 9.15am – 12.15pm
Lunch Club 12.15 - 12.45pm
Tuesday evening 5.00pm to 6.15pm
Mary Burton 07979 957028
Tuesday evening 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Debbie Horne 07752 238525
Tuesday evening 6.45pm - 8.45pm
Tania Powell 07799 883651
3rd Tuesday,each month 2.30pm
Marion Ketley 01702 556318
Every Wednesday 2.15pm - 3.45pm Ann Lowes 01702 553655
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